E. H. SHEPARD: four models of Winnie-the-Pooh and friends, with related documents; 1929, 2000. Plasticine and paper. These models, based on the characters he had drawn to illustrate A. A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh (1926) and The House at Pooh Corner (1928), were made by Shepard in 1929 for Harry Stopes-Roe (b. 1924), the son of his friend Marie Stopes. Letters written by Shepard in the guise of Pooh to Marie Stopes, 1933, and her son, 1934, are now 58542, ff. 45, 47. Two further such letter...
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Art. Illuminations and Drawings ENGLISH: Ernest Howard Shepard, artist: Four models of Winnie-the-Pooh and friends by E. H. Shepard, with related papers: 1929, 2000.
Papers relating to the provenance and history of the figures; 2000. 1. f. 1. Harry Stopes-Roe, 'Memories of Pooh'; 2000. Signed computer printout with MS. corrections. Printed in the Newsletter of the Friends of the British Library, no. 35 (Spring 2001), p. [5]. 2. f. 2. Declaration of Val...